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<blockquote data-quote="IceBear" data-source="post: 205739" data-attributes="member: 1118">I don't know about the rest of you, but I didn't have Internet access for most of the time that I played the older editions, and thus I didn't know that rule X was &quot;broken&quot; or &quot;unbalanced&quot; and thus I naturally have heard this referred to 3E more than any other edition.&nbsp; I also think that participating in rules forums like this might actually be jading us somewhat into thinking that 3E is broken or unbalanced.&nbsp; If someone comes here and provides an example of how broken something is, we all go &quot;Oh my...that's just wrong&quot;.&nbsp; Meanwhile, in our own games this situation might NEVER come up.&nbsp; However, the damage is done - we have the perception that something is broken.Anyway, I take the middle ground.&nbsp; I do prepare a lot.&nbsp; I do make up &quot;standard&quot; NPCs (guards, blacksmiths, etc) when I have the time.&nbsp; In general I don't find this any more time consuming than I did in the past.&nbsp; I often wing stuff too - you just need to have a good enough grasp of the rules to know what's reasonable.Anyway, I don't see 3E as being any harder to DM than 2E - somethings do take a little more work, but then somethings are easier to wing. If the PCs want to do something a little off the wall, just assign a DC to it to see if it succeeds.&nbsp; No need to go looking up rules and stuff.IceBear</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IceBear, post: 205739, member: 1118"] I don't know about the rest of you, but I didn't have Internet access for most of the time that I played the older editions, and thus I didn't know that rule X was "broken" or "unbalanced" and thus I naturally have heard this referred to 3E more than any other edition. I also think that participating in rules forums like this might actually be jading us somewhat into thinking that 3E is broken or unbalanced. If someone comes here and provides an example of how broken something is, we all go "Oh my...that's just wrong". Meanwhile, in our own games this situation might NEVER come up. However, the damage is done - we have the perception that something is broken. Anyway, I take the middle ground. I do prepare a lot. I do make up "standard" NPCs (guards, blacksmiths, etc) when I have the time. In general I don't find this any more time consuming than I did in the past. I often wing stuff too - you just need to have a good enough grasp of the rules to know what's reasonable. Anyway, I don't see 3E as being any harder to DM than 2E - somethings do take a little more work, but then somethings are easier to wing. If the PCs want to do something a little off the wall, just assign a DC to it to see if it succeeds. No need to go looking up rules and stuff. IceBear [/QUOTE]

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